Sunday, May 24, 2009

Will Obama Kill Navigation Backup System as GPS Threatens to Fail?

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LORAN radio transmission tower. (Photograph by USCG/PA1 Chuck Kalnbach) From Popular Mechanics: Obama's budget attempts to ax LORAN-C, a...

Animals Can Tell Right From Wrong

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Research suggests that it's not just humans who have a moral compass Photo: GETTY From The Telegraph: Animals possess a sense of moral...

Eureka Moment That Led To The Discovery Of DNA Fingerprinting

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Alec Jeffreys with a copy of the first DNA fingerprint profile. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA From The Guardian: Twenty-five years ago academic ...
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Google Earth Maps Out Discrimination Against Burakumin Caste In Japan

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The map showed how old ghettos relate to the 21st-century streets From Times Online: A handful of innocent-looking antique maps, one offensi...
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Ancient Teeth Hint That Right-handedness Is Nothing New

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From New Scientist: Ancient bones suggest "lefties" have been coping with a right-handed world for more than half a million years....

Molecular Link Between Sleep And Weight Gain

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From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (May 23, 2009) — There appears to be a link between sleep and weight control, with some studies indicating ...
Saturday, May 23, 2009

Race Fans Are Riskier Drivers

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Kyle Petty (#42) and Dale Jarrett (#18) lead the pack as the 1993 Daytona 500, NASCAR's flagship event, gets underway. (Photo from How S...

Bolden Is Tapped to Run NASA

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Photo: Former astronaut Charles Bolden Jr., shown at Beihang University in 2005, would be the first African-American to run NASA. His past t...

Boys Have Sweeter Tooth Than Girls

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Children's love of sweetness starts to wane as they hit their teens Photo: John Kernick From The Telegraph: Girls have a finer sense o...

No More Shuttles, No In-Space Fixes

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Astronauts Michael Good, left, and Mike Massimino participate in the mission's fourth spacewalk to repair the Hubble Space Telescope May...

Body Burners: The Forensics Of Fire

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From New Scientist: THE fire started with a match held under a cotton blanket close to the man's waist. Within 2 minutes, the flames had...

Queuing Up For Dinner: Dolphins Enjoy Sardine Feeding Frenzy

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Working as a team common dolphins head towards a bait ball in Port St. Johns, South Africa. From The Daily Mail: Like workers in a canteen t...

The Impact of Computing : 78% More per Year, v2.0

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(Click to Enlarge) From The Futurist: Anyone who follows technology is familar with Moore's Law and its many variations, and has come t...

Blue Whales Returning To Former Waters Off Alaska

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This undated photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows blue whales in the Gulf of the Farallones National ...
Friday, May 22, 2009

World's Observatories Watching 'Cool' Star

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Photographed by the Hubble Telescope, the bright star inside this nebula (gas cloud) is a very young white dwarf. (Credit: Courtesy of Space...

Innards of H1N1 Virus Resemble 'Flu Sausage'

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From Live Science: On March 28, one month before news of the swine flu outbreak headlined worldwide, a nine-year-old girl in Imperial Count...

Cold And Wet: The Latest Theory About Mars

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Rhythmic bedding in sedimentary bedrock within Becquerel crater on Mars is suggested by the patterns in this image from Nasa's Mars Reco...

The New Generation DVD That Can Hold All Of Your Movies On Just One Disc

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Different dimensions: Scientists are creating a DVD disc that can hold thousands of hours of film - but it could take up to 10 years before ...

Who Is Responsible For Averting An Asteroid Strike?

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This NASA slide depicts the catastrophic collision of a massive comet or asteroid with earth 250 million years ago, which appears to be the ...

How Old School Effects Brought Schwarzenegger's T-800 Back From 1983

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From Popular Mechanics: How the new Terminator Salvation movie used 25-year old props to recreate the T-800. Warning, spoilers ahead. When A...